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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.

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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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